Wednesday, April 30, 2008


A garden is a thing of
beauty and a job forever.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008


Be generous with kindly
words, especially about
those who are absent.
*
-Goethe

Monday, April 28, 2008


You've got to take the
bitter with the sour.
*
-Samuel Goldwyn

Sunday, April 27, 2008

frederick leighton

In peace I will both lie down
and sleep; for you alone ,
O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
*
-Psalm 4:8

Saturday, April 26, 2008


My two fingers on a
typewriter have never
connected with my brain.
My hand on a pen does.
*
-Graham Greene

Friday, April 25, 2008


You know what the three most
exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, plane motors, and
train whistles.
*
-George Bailey

Thursday, April 24, 2008


I always have a quotation
for everything; it saves
original thinking.
*
-Dorothy Sayers

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

paul gauguin

I shut my eyes in order
to see.
*
-Paul Gauguin

Tuesday, April 22, 2008


Ask not what you can do for
your country. Ask what's
for lunch.
*
-Orson Wells

Monday, April 21, 2008


Anyone who goes to a
psychiatrist ought to
have his head examined.
*
-Samuel Goldwyn

Sunday, April 20, 2008


Your words were found,
and I ate them,
and your words became to me
a joy and a delight.
*
-Jeremiah 15:16

Saturday, April 19, 2008


Literature is news
that stays news.
*
-Ezra Pound

Friday, April 18, 2008


I believe in looking reality
straight in the eye and
denying it.
*
-Garrison Keillor

Thursday, April 17, 2008

natalie dee

The art of medicine
consists in amusing the
patient while nature
cures the disease.
*
-Voltaire

Wednesday, April 16, 2008


8About 50 bibles are sold every minute.
8The common box turtle can live to be
a hundred.
8You will spend over a year of your life
looking for misplaced things.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

paul klee

A drawing is simply a
line going for a walk.
*
-Paul Klee

Monday, April 14, 2008


Beware, so long as you live, of judging
people by appearances.
*
-Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

Sunday, April 13, 2008

francisco goya

This is the one to whom I
will look: he who is humble
and contrite in spirit and
trembles at my word.
*
Isaiah 66:2

Saturday, April 12, 2008


fingerpost is two years
old today.
*
in lieu of gifts please leave comments.

Friday, April 11, 2008


Do or not do. -There is no try.
*
-Yoda

Thursday, April 10, 2008


It has long been an axiom of mine
that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
*
-Sherlock Holmes

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

richard avedon

All I can do is be me,
whoever that is.
*
-Bob Dylan

Tuesday, April 08, 2008


If every fool wore
a crown, we should
all be kings.
*
-Welsh proverb

Monday, April 07, 2008


Education is learning
what you didn't even know
you didn't know.
*
-Daniel J. Boortstin

Sunday, April 06, 2008

pablo picasso

Be wise as serpents and
harmless as doves.
*
-Matthew 10:16

Saturday, April 05, 2008


Some people are born on
third base and go through
life thinking they hit a
triple.
*
-Barry Switzer

Friday, April 04, 2008


I have four beautiful daughters and three of them
have boyfriends that they're serious about. These
young men hail from Delaware, South Carolina, and
Colorado and all three have mothers with the same
name. Can you guess the name?
*
-Damien

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Bumper Logic


Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

katsushika hokusai

Either you decide to stay in the
shallow end of the pool or you
go out into the ocean.
*
-Christopher Reeve

Tuesday, April 01, 2008


You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
*
-Colette